BATTLE lines were drawn when Joey Barton declared another war on the cast of The Only Way Is Essex.

One man taking on an entire cast? It’s like 300...

The QPR footballer, 29, called them “melts” on Twitter after he spied them at the Call of Duty party. This drew responses from Mark Wright and James Argent who, Joey says, has teeth “like a burnt down fence”.

Mark, 24, told Joey his knowledge of TOWIE proves he’s a fan. More name-calling tweets later and the TOWIE girls posted a taunting pic of the cast, and even Dean Gaffney, 33, piped up.

Last night, Joey responded: “Isn’t it absurd that all these Z-listers stick up for each other? Must think it’ll get them a Daz advert.” Amazing.